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Running on Woolen Legs

2012

In this work I hiked to find tucked away fields and braid the earth as a ritualistic performance.

For several weeks I laboriously braided in fields with wild growing grasses to form an intimate connection with the earth through the repetitive, soothing and intimate motions of braiding. This type of affectionate grooming associated with the bonding of women allowed me to forge a deeper understanding of our relationship to earth as an living, breathing equal. I continued to braid, week after week with tired arms and as the motions became a struggle I began to feel a sisterly, companion-like connection to our natural environment.

Hugeness World System Universe and Bang

Trashy!

Trashy!

2008

Laminated Photographs, Sequins, Small Beads

3 in x .75 in

In this piece I photographed cigarette butts that I hand decorated. I then enlarged the photos, printed them on double-sided photo paper, laminated them and then bedazzled the new flat enlarged image objects. I dispersed hundreds of these objects through out the streets and heavily walked paths in Athens, Ohio to draw attention to the ever present cigarette litter as well as the over-exaggerated appeal of the cigarette as a social object. Throughout the following days and I watched as they were swept up with the other cigarette butts outside of bars, puzzled over by passerbys and snatched up and put in pockets discovered as treasure.